Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanisis an American Internet entrepreneur and blogger. His first company was part of the dot-com era in New York, and his second venture, Weblogs, Inc., a publishing company that he co-founded together with Brian Alvey, capitalized on the growth of blogs before being sold to AOL. As well as being an angel investor in various technology startups, Calacanis also keynotes industry conferences worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 November 1970
CountryUnited States of America
To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.
People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.
Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.
If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.
The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.
The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.